Octave

It is a 4-4-4-2 structure. The fundamental break comes between the first eight lines (Octave) and the last six lines (Sestet). The poems form consists of a rhyming pattern. It portrays a formal poem. It also displays a personal story, because it contains emotion. In the poem it describes a woman that has dated various men in her life, but…

sonnets: Italian, and English sonnet. The Italian version is also known as the Petrarchan. It breaks into two parts and the first part is the octave which is the first eight lines and they rhyme “abbaabba” (Meyer 778). Then the second half and final six lines is the sestet which has varying rhyme schemes but commonly “cdecde, cdcdcd, and cdccdc” (Meyer 778). The octave of the poem sets the mood and situation while the sestet resolves it. An English sonnet is organized into three quatrains and a…

proud in himself. He discovers that he is not in control of what happens in his life, but it is his perseverance that will allow him to find true success. The musical structure is composed in a series of sestets and octaves. Upon further analysis I discovered that the eight-line octaves, which appear twice in the song, could be broken down into two separate quatrains. After reviewing the lyrics, I found…

could objectively be a best singer of all time. Which can be a very dangerous slope to go down, for if one claims that no one could ever be the best, they are denying the fact that Freddie Mercury is indeed that greatest singer of all time. With his 4-octave vocal range to his vocal transparency, and with his vocal dynamics, proves that he is in fact the greatest of all time. “A killer queen” and “dynamite with a laser beam”, perhaps Freddie was referring to his own powerful vocal presence with…

with his use of vivid imagery and strong tone in his poem. Overall, “The World Is Too Much For us,” is an Italian Sonnet, which means it is written in iambic pentameter. Wordsworth's poem consists of one octave and a sestet. The speaker’s tone is the most dynamic and prominent during the octave. His tone first comes across as stern when his opening lines consist of antitheses. The speaker says, “late and soon,” and “Getting and spending,” showing that the world is too focused on consumerism…

nature Line 8: Personification: “Washed by the rivers” Form and meter This poem is a sonnet. “The Soldier” has 14 lines and is divided into two groups: the octave (first 8 lines) who introduces the problem and the sestet (last 6 lines) where the problem gets solved. We also have a “Volta” of the “turn” in de begin of the sextet shift gears. In the octave the poem discuss how it would be if he dies and what was the role of England in his development, he mainly talks about life on earth. In the…

beauty into something almost immortal. It is as if Shakespeare is describing his beloved as a perfect being. In Sonnet 18’s octave, he starts off with a question and a quick statement of his beloved “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:”(1-2). In contrast to his beloved in being mild/constant and beautiful, he continues in his octave to describe summer as season with that brings unpleasant extremes of windiness and heat. But near the end in his…

The first eight lines, octave, present the situation in this case revealing the conflict between cultural origins and the harsh realities of prejudice against African Americans. Lines one through four give an insight of their lives; they were attacked and put into awful conditions and were being “mocked” (4) for their luck. There is a shift in between the octave and sestet called the turn in line 9, where the speaker calls his kinsmen to action…

(Mabillard 2009). “Sonnet 29” addresses the conflict between love and self representation within a young man. In the first eight lines, the octave, the young man portrays himself as an “outcast” (Clauson 2009). The young man’s portrayal of himself, as an outcast, is emphasized throughout the octave through the man’s envy of what other men possess. The octave is then followed by the setset, in which the young man decides to change his “state” and is joyous over the remembrance of his “sweet…

Also reflecting standard practice within Petrarchan poetry, Longfellow’s octave utilizes an a b b a, a b b a rhyme scheme and his sestet adopts a c d c, d c d pattern (Mason and Nims 312). The octave’s unified structure and rhyme scheme strike a contrast with Keats’s introductory quatrains. While Keats frames these quatrains as subordinate clauses, preempting a resolution to the fears they discuss, Longfellow’s octave does no such thing. Instead, Longfellow crafts a unified, emotional…